Can I make my husband leave housing association property

[Tasha47]

Hi

I am completely new to this site, in fact I am new to social media all together, but I am desperate to find someone who has dealt with my situation and get advice on how to deal with it.

I have been separated from my husband now for 15 month, but we still live in the same property which is housing association and the tenancy is in my name only.

I have asked my husband to leave many times, but he just won't go, he has checked his rights and although his name is not on the tenancy he still has home rights and I am unable to make him leave, this is true, I have enquired about it myself. He has been violent in the past, until I finally called the police one day, That was several years ago and there has been no physical violence since, however he just became more verbally abusive when we would argue, I think this is my husband final control over me, if I don't want to be with him, that's fine, but there is no way he is going to allow me to get on peacefully with my life, this is making me so miserable.

I have thought of how I can get away, I wanted to buy a shared ownership property and leaving him to it, that way, he would either have to leave either way, or he could fight in court to get the housing association to transfer the tenancy into his name but a solicitor has advised that I don't do that whilst we are still married as he may have a claim to the asset, so I have had to let the property I was going to buy go and a divorce can take up to 7 months, plus I wanted to complete the divorce after we went our separate ways as you can imagine the atmosphere living in the same home whilst going through divorce, but I am not sure how much more I can take living in the same house.

The only option I can see at the moment, is to just give up my HA property and go and rent privately, this makes me so angry that he is going to force me to give up a property that I have had since I was 18, I am now 47, but I don't see any other options, I can't go on living like this.

This is my last hope, that someone can suggest another option for me, any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Okay, I will contact those organizations, thank you x

A housing officer won’t give you legal advice but may have helped in a DA situation.

Do you work you work? You might be able to get legal advice through employee assistance programme or union legal line.

Get out, arrange something privately rented and tell him he will have to pay the rent and bills on the HA property, seeing as he's going to be living there alone. Tell the HA what you're doing and why. Obviously you can't afford to pay rent on 2 properties and he's made it impossible to live in the HA flat. Then get the divorce.
Then look at buying a SO property. If you can't afford it, at least you will have got rid of him.

Yes I am working, I was able to get free legal advice through my union, but it just seems like all the rights are his, he can stay if he wants and I can't do anything about it. Someone suggested earlier in this chat about contacting rights for women, I just had a look on their website and will try them tomorrow 🤞🏽 hopefully they can guide me in a different direction.

You may be best looking at private rent for now, because sadly any savings you have towards a property will possibly be split with your husband 50/50 but on the flip side, he will have to split his savings with you, so it will depend on what you both have in your accounts, or what is classed as assets to share.

Hmmm. He is being verbally abusive. Not sure about housing law where you are, but domestic abuse is grounds for eviction where I am. It is considered anti-social behaviour. In addition, it is criminal. Do not minimise what he is doing and let the Housing Association know.

Hi how did you get on. Im in the same situation HA told me today hes an occupier I'm sole tenant he has no rights but according to everything I’ve seen he does. Ive been really civil and respectful but he isnt. He took my car off me that i use for a start. I have started divorce proceedings and i said he can go when thats done so 6-7 months long enough to sort something he said absolutely not. I am going to see a solicitor but i want to speak to someone who’s done it. I also don’t want to play dirty as I'm keeping my children in mind

Did you get him to leave?